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Aaron Parazette is an American artist living in Houston, Texas. His bold abstract works on canvas and paper feature geometric shapes and are often created within a shape as well.

Parazette moved to Houston to participate in the Core Residency Program at the Glassell School of Art, and has taught at the School of Art at the University of Houston.

Parazette was named Art League Houston's Texas Artist of the Year in 2012. EDUCATION AND AWARDS 2005	Award, Artadia Fund for Art and Dialogue, New York 1994	Mid-America Arts Alliance, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award 1991	Residency Fellowship, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas 1990	Residency Fellowship, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas 1990	Master of Fine Art, Painting, The Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California 1987	Bachelor of Arts, Painting, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2010	Site Objects, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas 2009	Air Drop, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco 2008	Surf Trip, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas New Paintings, McClain Gallery, Houston 2007	New Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York 2006	Wind Swell, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco All On Up, Marlborough Gallery, New York 2005	Aaron Parazette, The Suburban, Chicago Project Space, ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain 2004	Perspectives 141: Aaron Parazette, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston 2003	New Paintings, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio 2002	New Paintings, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles 2000	South Swell, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas 1997	Pleasure Provision, Texas Gallery, Houston 1994 	New Paintings, Texas Gallery, Houston 1993	New Paintings, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles 1992	Paintings with Subtitles, Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston 1991	Empty Abstraction, Lloyd Shin Gallery, Chicago Not Perfect, Davis/McClain Gallery, Housto TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2009	Site Flavor, with Sharon Engelstein, Lousiania State University, Baton Rouge 2004	Conversagence, with Sharon Engelstein, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, Jona Frank/Aaron Parazette, ArtSource, San Francisco 2002 	Bandy: Sharon Engelstein & Aaron Parazette, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum,Tampa 2001	Color Code, with Francesca Fuchs, Sala Dias, San Antonio Material Morph: Aaron Parazette & Ken Price, Austin Museum of Art 2000	John Tremblay + Aaron Parazette, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami 1998	On the Beach in Galveston, with Sharon Engelstein, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2009 	The Armory Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York Dallas Art Fair, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas Dallas Art Fair Satellite, Neiman Marcus, Dallas Coordinates, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas 2008	Glass Love: Contemporary Art and Surfing, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum More than Words, Von Lintel Gallery, New York Lines, Texas Gallery, Houston Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York Fundamental Abstraction II, Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco Learning by Doing: 25 Years of the Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts Houston

Fashion Loves Art, Neiman Marcus, Houston A Way With Words, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX 	In the Beginning, University Art Gallery, Univeristy California, San Diego Option H, McClain Gallery, Houston 2006	Art Basel Miami, Gregory Lind Gallery Summer Group Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York NY 	Blurring the Line, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio 2005	Partners, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland Wall Paintings, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio Restless, Glassell School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Artadia at Diverseworks, Diverseworks, Houston Group Show, Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, Spain 2004	Camp Lucky, Summer of Carnage, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston Group Show, Marlborough Chelsea Perspectives at 25: A Quarter Century of New Art Group Show, Marlborough Chelsea The Art Collection of SBC Center, Carrington Gallery, San Antonio 2003	Painting By Design, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Art Positions, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beautiful Pressure, Rocket Projects, Miami Size Matters, Texas Gallery, Houston Digitally Assisted, Galveston Art Center New Paintings: Esposito/Parazette/Rosmarin, Texas Gallery, Houston Still/Motion, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco 2002	Beached Not Stranded, Beaker Gallery, Tampa ArtCologne, Finesilver Gallery, Cologne, Germany Jet Set, University of Texas, Dallas Summer Drawings, Mixture Contemporary Art, Houston Rapture, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston Hard Core, Galveston Art Center Neo Painting, Young Eun Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea The Million Dollar Hotel Show, Holiday Inn Select, Houston Labrynths, Borden Butler Gallery, Houston 2001 	Fast Forward, Finesilver Gallery, Nash Hotel,  Miam The Drawing Show, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston Boomerang, Exit Art, New York Works on Paper, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio Post Hypnotic, Massart, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston Dazzling, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston Reductive, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio Sources: Art and the Unversal, Paradigm Art Space, Atlanta Braille, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art Post Hypnotic, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida Group Show, Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles Post Hypnotic, The Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota, Deluth 2000	Art on Paper 2000, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, North Carolina What’s So Funny about Color, Elias Fine Art, Boston San Francisco International Art Exposition, Finesilver Gallery, San Francisco Imported, The Gallery at Green Street, Boston Maximal Minimal, Feigen Gallery, New York Art Chicago 2000, Finesilver Gallery, Chicago Post Hypnotic, The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Post Hypnotic, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta New Work: Abstract Painting, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco 1999	Material, Process, Memory, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin (catalogue) Fabstraction, Texas Gallery, Houston Post Hypnotic, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati Post Hypnotic, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas Optopussy, Angstom Gallery, Dallas Size Matters, Gale Gates et al. Brooklyn Abstract Painting Once Removed, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO 	Fabstraction, Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles Fabstraction, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Post Hypnotic, University of Illinois, Normal (catalogue) 1998	Abstract Painting Once Removed, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Tendances Actuelles de la Peinture a Texas, Saintes Museum of Art, Saintes, France 1997	Oktoberfest, Texas Gallery, Houston Primary Colors, Galerie Barbara Farber/Rob Jurka, Amsterdaam Post Pop, Post Pictures, The Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago Texas Abstract: New Painting, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas The Mediation of Ornament, Transco Tower Gallery, Houston Buttered Side Up, The Loggia Gallery, Toronto, Canada Disiptoey, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas Equal Pay, Revolution Summer Gallery, Houston 1996 	Bliss Project, LACE, Los Angeles, 12/5-1/26 (catalogue) The Gramercy International Art Fair, Chateau Marmont, Morris Healy Gallery Los Angeles, Buttered Side Up, Hall Walls, Buffalo, New York (catalogue) Texas Abstract: New Painting, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Texas Abstract: New Painting, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas 1995	Texas Abstract: New Painting, Art Pace, San Antonio (catalogue) Wallpaper Works, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (catalogue). The Home Show, University of Texas, San Antonio Summer Serial, Texas Gallery, Houston Contact: The 114th Annual Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute (catalogue) Analogs of Modernism, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas (catalogue) 1994	Faith and Doubt, State Universtiy of New York, Buffalo (catalogue) Exquisite Corpse, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas Inquiring Minds, Conduit Gallery, Dallas Forging Ahead, University of Texas, Arlington (catalogue) New Work, Texas Gallery, Houston Irreverent Homage, Bucknell University, Lewisberg, Pennsylvania (catalogue) 1993	Deluge, Lyons Weir Gallery, Chicago Summer Reading, Texas Gallery, Houston Traditional Forms/Insidious Visions, Glassell School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1992 	Core Fellows '92, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1991	Core Fellows '91, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston CATALOGUES Federal Reserve Bank, Houston Branch, Collection of Art, 2009 New Paintings, essay by Frances Colpitt, Marlborough Gallery, 2007 All on Up, essay by Mark Flood,, Marlborough Gallery, 2006 Restless, Essay by Valerie Olsen, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 2005 Wall Paintings, Essay by Frances Colpitt, The University of Texas at SanAntonio, 2005 Neo Painting, essay by MiJin Kim, Young Eun Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, 2002 Material Morph: Parazette + Price, essay by Dana Friis Hansen, Austin Museum of Art, 2001 New Orleans Triennial, essay by William A. Fagaly and Susie Rosmarin, New Orleans Museum of Art, 2001 Texas:150 Works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, by Alison de Lima Greene, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000 Material/Process/Memory, Essay by Alexander Dumbadze, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, 1999 Post-Hypnotic, essays by Barry Blinderman and Tom Moody, The University of Illinois, Normal, 1999 Abstract Painting Once Removed, essays by Dana Friis-Hansen, David Pagel, Raphael Rubinstein, and Peter Schjeldahl, The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 1998 Post-Pop, Post Pictures, essay by Courtenay Smith, The Smart Museum, The University of Chicago, 1997 Buttered Side Up, essay by Karen Emenhiser, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, 1997 True Bliss, essays by Julie Joyce, David A. Greene, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 1997 Texas Abstract: New Painting, essay by Frances Colpitt, Pace Roberts Foundation, 1995 Wallpaper Works, essay by Stephanie Smith, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 1995 Contact: The 114th Annual Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, 1995 The Home Show, essay by Frances Colpitt, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 1995 Analogs of Modernism, essay by Tom Moody, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, 1995 Irreverent Homage, essay by Lynn Cazabon Bucknell University, 1995 Faith in Doubt, essay by Al Harris & Karen Emenhiser, SUNY at Buffalo, Research Center in Art + Culture, 1994 Forging Ahead, essay by Al Harris, Center for Research in Contemporary Art, UT Arlington, 1994 Core Fellows 1991-92, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, 1992 Core Fellows 1990-91, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, 1991 BIBLIOGRAPHY “At 25 Still a Magnet for Talent”, by Douglas Britt, Houston Chronicle, Dec. 21, 2008, p. 10-13 “Portraits in Contemporary Art”, PaperCity, December, 2008, p 48-49 “Fundamental Abstraction II”, by Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, July 5, 2008, p E10 “Kiln and Palette…”, by Catherine D. Anspon, PaperCity, Sept. 2008, p. 68-69 “Strokes of Genius”, by Amber Bell, Houston Magazine, Sept. 2008, p. 180-181 “Aaron Parazette at Dunn and Brown”, by Charles Dee Mitchell, Dallas Morning News, Oct. 4, 2008, p. E1 “Aaron Parazette”, by Bill Davenport, Art News, May 2008, p. 159 “Art and Architecture”, by Michelle Gringeri-Brown, Atomic Ranch, Spring 2008, p. 18-25 “Aaron Parazette, Marlborough Gallery”, by John Ewing, Art Lies, Spring 2008, p. 113 “Aaron Parazette-New Paintings”, by Kelly Klaasmeryer, Houston Press, March 20, 2008, p. 48 “Glass Love-Contemporary Art and Surf”, by Kim Beil, Art Ltd, March 2008, p. 18 “Fashion Loves Art”, PaperCity, March 2008, p. 4 “Glass Love-Contemporary Art and Surf”, by Kim Beil, Art Ltd, March 2008, p. 18 “In The Beginning…”, by Robert Pincus, San Diego Union Tribune, Jan. 20, 2008, p. E1 “Glass Love”, CASA Magazine, January 23, 2008, p. 46 “Seeing Words”, by Kinsee Morlan, San Diego CITYBEAT, Jan. 16, 2008, p. Arts 1 “Aaron Parazette in New York”, Artinfo.com, Weekend Picks, December 7, 2007 Featured artist, Public Mag, Fall/Winter 2006, cover art and p.92-99 “Art for Surf’s Sake”, by Joseph Woodard, Santa Barbara News-Press, November 30, 2007, pp. 19-20 “Visceral Art…”, by Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronical, November 4, 2006, p. E10 “Incoming Swell”, by Ethan Stewart, The Independent, October 25, 2007 “Regional Roundup: San Francisco”, by Laura Richard Janku, Artinfo.com, News & Features, November 8, 2006 “Cutting Edge”, by Cathrine Anspon, PaperCity, May, 2006 p. 45-45 “Weekend Update”, by Walter Robinson, Artnet.com, May 27, 2006 “Houston School: New Abstract Painting”, by Vanessa Michel, glasstire.com, May 22, 2006 “Listings: Galleries Chelsea”, by Ken Johnson, New York Times, May 12, 2006, E23 “Listings”, Time Out New York, April 22-May 3, 2006, p. 92 “The Fresh, The Young, and The Restless,” by Florencia Parada, 002 Magazine, Nov., 2005 p. 22 “Love at First Sight”, by Sheila Farr, Seattle Times, Oct. 21, 2005 “Artists Share Vision,” by Patricia Johnson, Houston Chronicle, Oct. 15, 2005, p. E5 “Aaron Parazette at the Contemporary Arts Museum”, by Frances Colpitt, Art in America, February, 2005, p. 136 “Bold Strokes,” by Russ Mayer, House and Garden, p. 76-83, December 2005 “New Sculpture and Painting”, by Alison Bing, SFGate.com, November, 2004 “Aaron Parazette and Sharon Engelstein”, by Emily Clark, Art Lies, Fall 2004, p. 111 “Bubbling Over in Talent”, by Kenneth Baker, Art News, September, 2004, pp. 94-102 “What's Seen Confuses What's Read”, by Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, September 4, 2004, p. E10 “50’s Refab”, by Helen Tompson, Metropolitan Home, July-August, 2004, pp. 102-109 “Preservation: Historical Residential”, PaperCity Houston, July, 2004, p. 31 “For Art’s Sake”, by Tim Maloney, 002 Magazine, Houston, July 2004, p. 14 “Kooks and Surf Gods”, by John C. Devine, Arts Houston, June, 2004, pp. 22-23 “Divergent Pursuits”, by Patricia Johnson, Houston Chronicle, May 8, 2004, p. 9D “A Play on Words”, by Katherine Whaley, the Rice Thresher, April 23, 2004, p. 9 “A Wave of Words”, by Keith Plocek, Houston Press, April 15-21, 2004, p. 39 “San Antonio, Texas”, by Anjali Gupta, Art Papers, November/December, 2003, pp. 54-55 “Aaron Parazette”, by Frances Colpitt, US Art, September, 2003, p. 44 “Strictly Temporal…”, by Anjali Gupta, San Antonio Current, July, 2003, p. 14 “Abstract Art for the Masses?”, by Dan Goddard, San Antonio Express News, July 13, 2003, PP. J1-3 “Still Motion”, by Marisa S. Olson, Afterimage, March/April, 2003 "Provocative Passions", by Clifford Pugh, Houston Chronicle, Oct. 20, 2002, Zest, pp. 18-19 "Gary Szymanski, Aaron Parazette", by Peter Frank, L.A. Weekly, Oct 18-24, 2002 “Tracing a Wild Visual Ride Through Color”, by Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, Oct. 4, 2002, p. F25 “Hello My Name is Simon”, by Kelly Klaasmeyer, Houston Press, Aug. 15-21, 2002, p. 60 “Pop Goes to Houston”, by Joanne Milani, the Tampa Tribune, June 16, 2002, Bay Life News “Eye Candy”, by Lennie Bennett, St. Petersburg Times, May 30, 2002, Weekend “Labrynths”, by Maria Stalford, Glasstire.com, February, 2002 “New Orleans”, by D Eric Bookhardt, Art Papers, Nov./Dec. 2001 pp. 68-69 “Southern Sensibilities”, by Frances Colpitt, Art in America, Nov. 2001, pp. 59-63 “Parazette & Price: Material Morph”, by Arend Swartjes, Artlies, Fall 2001, pp. 58 “Reductive”, by Arend Swartjes, Artlies, Fall 2001, p. 82 “Parazette & Price: Material Morph”, by Bill Davenport, www.glasstire.com, Aug. 2001, “Up Close”, Dan R. Goddard, San Antonio Express-News, Aug. 26, 2001 “Temperature Setting”, by Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin, Austin American Statesman, Aug. 16, 2001, p. 27 “These Paintings Really Do Dazzle”, by Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, July 19, 2001, p. D7 “Remembering Postmodernism”, by D. Eric Bookhardt, Gambit Weekly, May 15, 2001, p. 37 “2001 New Orleans Triennial”, by Doug MacCash, Times Picayune, May, 2001, p. E1 “Aaron Parazette, John Tremblay”, by Gene Moreno, New Art Examiner, April 2001, p. 58 “Aaron Parazette”, by Alexander Dumbadze, Art Papers, Jan/Feb. 2001 p. 48 “Vibrant Paint”, by Elisa Turner, Miami Herald, December 28, 2000, p. 1E “Dennis Hollingsworth”¸by Peter Frank, ArtNews, December, 2000, p.161 "Exhibit Reveals Versatility", by Jaqueline Humphrey, News & Record, Dec. 7th, 2000, p.161 “Space City Takes Off”, by Frances Colpitt, Art In America, October, 2000, pp. 67-75 “Eye Spies”, by Bret MCcabe, The Met, August 16, 2000, p. 26 ”Regional Hopes and Recycled Tropes”, by Raphael Rubinstein, Art In America, July, 2000, pp. 39-40 “Featured Artist”, by Margaret Moore, Hemisphere Magazine, June, 2000, cover and p. 12 “Ambition Abstraction”, San Francisco Chronicle, January 8, 2000 “Gallery Watch”, by David Bonette, San Francisco Examiner, Jan. 28, 2000 “Best of the 90’s”, by Dave Hickey, Artforum, December, 1999, p. 112 “Los Angeles”, by Peter Frank, Art Papers, September/October, 1999 "Fabstraction at Patricia Faure Gallery", by Mary Kay Lombino, Artweek, July/August, 1999 “Like Wow Mom, Op Art’s Back”, by Janet Kutner, Dallas Morning News, June 27, 1999 “Cool Your Eyes”, by Christina Rees, Dallas Observer, June 24, 1999 “Intoxicating”, by Mike Daniel, Dallas Morning News, June 11, 1999 “Your Getting Sleepy”, by Janet Tyson, Star-Telegram, June 11, 1999 "Fabstraction”, by Peter Frank, L.A. Weekly, May 14,  1999 "A Demolition Derby of Art", by Tom Porges, the Octopus, Jan15-22, 1999 "On the Beach at Galveston", by Bill Davenport, Art Papers, Nov./Dec. 1998 “What’s So Great About Painitng”, by Shaila Dewan, Houston Press, Oct. 29 – Nov. 4, 1998 "Abstract Artists Redraw Boundaries of Painting", by Patricia Johnson, Houston Chronicle, Wed., Oct. 7, 1998 “Aaron Parazette at Texas”, by Frances Colpitt, Art in America, July, 1997 “Rogueish Gallery”, by Dee Mitchell, Dallas Morning News, May 16, 1997 “Light and Darkness”, by Shaila Dewan, Houston Press, March 20 – 26, 1997 "True Bliss at Lace", by Lisa Auerbach, L.A. Weekly, Jan 2, 1997 “Can Artists Run Their Own Spaces?”, by Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, Dec. 27, 1996 "Visual Pleasure", by Richard Huntington, the Buffalo News, October 11, 1996 "Wallpaper as Wall Hanging", by Delfina Vannucci, Public News, November 29, 1995 “Aaron Parazette at Texas Gallery”, by Charles Dee Mitchell, Art in America, April, 1995 “Report From Texas", by Frances Colpitt, Art in America, April, 1995 “Our Critic’s Review”, by Richard Huntington, The Buffalo News, January 1, 1995 Cover Artist (front and back), West Branch #36, Bucknell University, Lewisberg, PA 1995 “Artitorial”, by Elizabeth Cicata, Artvoice, November 23, 1994 "Something Funny Happens to Contemporary Art", by Richard Huntington, The Buffalo News, Nov. 22, 1994 "Texas Artists on View in Provocative Exhibit", by Susan Chadwick, The Houston Post, March 5, 1994 "Houston's Artists", by Elizabeth McBride, Public News, Sept. 2, 1992 “The People Who Make Houston Houston”, by Rob Ziebell, Houston Metropolitan, August, 1992 "Words and Pictures", by Susie Kalil, Houston Press, Aug. 6, 1992 “Uneven Mix”, by Patricia Johnson, Houston Chronicle, July 22, 1992 "Promising Work Adds Strength", by Susan Chadwick, The Houston Post, July 22, 1992| "Some Winners", by Susan Chadwick, The Houston Post, July 21, 1992 "In the Abstract", Susie Kalil, Houston Press, April 30, 1992 "Soft Core", by Susie Kalil, Houston Press, April 9, 1992 "Art of Change", by Susan Chadwick, The Houston Post, March 26, 1991 “Summertime News”, by Jane Ludlam, Houston Press, July 25, 1991 “Art Review”, by Patricia Johnson, Houston Chronicle, July 20, 1991 "Two Artists Work," The Los Angeles Times, March 28, 1990 PAINTING	•	WALL PAINTING	•	HOME	•	EMAIL download printable cv